Guild Wars 2

Seriously. People farming for drops or even farming a particular dungeon don’t impact the player bases’ play experience hardly at all if at all. Unless they’re botting, they’re actively participating and playing the game. So what they make a little more profit than you intended.

Know what impacts FAR more people’s play experiences? The at least 1-2 broken skill points per map, and as many if not more broken events.

They never get fixed, they only get reset on update days. Claw of Jormag, broken, Melandru temple, broken, dozens of skill points broken. Personal story quests broken.

Yet here you are finding a way each patch to nerf some farming method.

I’d rather people be able to farm drops until their eyeballs pop out of their sockets, it’ll have some effect on the economy but it’ll likely be in the favor of the buyer, that is to say, the casual gamers who make up the majority of your playerbase I’m sure. But hey, at least people could complete maps, participate in events, and finish their stories.

As a person who got ripped off by the deminishing returns, I whole heartedly agree!
YEAH!
Stop trying to fix dungeon runs, I want my 180 tokens for my complete runs, not 77.

Yeah… it is a bit of a pain in the rear to have content bust for days without a permanent fix.

Farming stuff is…. just aggravating. I want to get, say, Blood for armor and weapons I want to make. But the farming code kicks in, so I’m forced to do a circuit and farm crap I don’t want while getting the 1 item I’m going for.

Then I need to sell the items I got (most everything is vendor trash) and then buy the actual item I wanted to farm. The whole point of farming is to get an item for yourself and not need to play the market game.

I’m grateful ArenaNet says we shouldn’t need to grind. But I’m ungrateful they are choosing my playstyle for me, and not letting me have the option to do what I want to do.

A simple thing of fixed drop rates becomes a convoluted mess. Then it backfires and punishes people by denying legit rewards—like the Tokens bug.

It’s hard not to picture resources being spent in the wrong area. But I’m slightly sure (not by much) that the team working to fix the events content are not the ones messing around with drop rates and rewards…. so I’d hope it is not interfering with fixes coming. I’d hope. lol

It’s just a buzzkill to have quality of life impacted on both ends. It can be tedious to farm what you need for gear or advancing crafting professions and at the same time, just playing normally is impacted by all the broken events and skillpoints.

It’s as if Arenanet WANTS us to stop playing.

Case in point, sometimes I go up to frostgorge to see if the dragon event is up.

I ask if anyone has the spawn time. If I’m like an hour away from spawn, I stick around and farm trolls, as I still need some berserker gear, or I might craft some berserker gear to sell.

20 minutes in, you know, not even a full magic find boost, your drops fall off.

then to really kick you in the crotch, spin you around kick you in the butt and leave you in the mud, the claw of jormag event is broken.

I’d rather they fix farming. This way the items I sell are worth more than a saturated market. Skill points and world completion are not as important as preserving the economy.

Good luck though. ArenaNet has programs working on both issues at the same time, so I don’t know why the assumption is that it isn’t.

I hope you’ve reporting the events are broken when you come across them. Otherwise there’s very little they can do to fix it. Just a quick pointer there.

Probably this topic will be deleted/locked but i’m totally aggree the summarized part that shown below especially the “playstyle” part.
I’m not a fan of “farming” idea but i know some people that really likes it so i hope they feel free in future :p

Hsinimod.5784:

I’m grateful ArenaNet says we shouldn’t need to grind. But I’m ungrateful they are choosing my playstyle for me, and not letting me have the option to do what I want to do.

agree. the reward system hands out such puny amounts of $ and usable gear as it is before even considering diminished returns.